“She has the kind of love that can stain your soul, make you beg not to have one, just to escape the spell she’s put you under. I’ve tried to break myself of her over and over, but it’s pointless. I’ve got more of her in my veins than blood”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“She will be your destruction. She's not healthy."
"Then let her destroy me.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Broken people give broken love. And we are all a little broken. You just have to forgive and sew up the wounds love delivers, and move on.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“I’ve come to the conclusion that there are no set rules in life. You do what you have to do to survive. If that means running away from the love of your life to preserve your sanity, you do it. If it means breaking someone’s heart so yours doesn’t break; do it. Life is complicated — too much so for there to be absolutes. We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you’ll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves. Olivia has stopped rattling quite as much as she used to. Love is a God-given tool, she tells me. It screws things back in place that were loose, and it cleans out all the broken pieces that you don’t need anymore. I believe her. Our love has been fixing each other. I hope to only hear a tiny jingle when I shake her in a few years”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. Love is mean, but it’s good. It keeps us alive.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“I'll do whatever I have to do to protect you. I'll lie, cheat, and steal to make you okay. I'll share your suffering, and I'll carry you when you're weighed down. I'll never leave you, not even when you ask me to. Do you believe me?”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend?”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“She’s mine. She always has been, she always will be.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Let me carry you out. I'll never let you touch the ground. I was made to carry you, Olivia. You're fucking heavy with all of your guilt and self-loathing. But, I can do it. Because I love you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Maybe our souls touched underneath that tree. Maybe I decided to love her. Maybe love wasn't our choice. But when I looked at that woman, I saw myself differently.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Lies, it sounds demented to want a woman’s lies. But, Olivia loves you with her lies. She lies about how she’s feeling, how she’s hurting, how she wants you when she tells you she doesn’t. She lies to protect you and herself.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Wherever we go in the next life, we’ll be together,” I say.
"Let’s not go to hell then, that’s where Leah will be.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“That was the exact moment my heart threaded with hers. It was as if someone reached down with a sewing needle and stitched my soul to hers. How could one woman be so sharp and so vulnerable at the same time? Whatever would happen to her would happen to me. Whatever pain she would feel, I would feel it too. I wanted it — that was the surprising part. Selfish, self centered Caleb Drake loved a girl so much he could already feel himself changing to accommodate her needs.
I fell.
Hard.
For the rest of this life and probably the next.
I wanted her — every last inch of her stubborn, combative, catty heart.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“She's mine. She always has been, she always will be. We've been running in opposite directions for the last ten years, and we collide at every turn. Sometimes, it's because we're looking for each other, other times it's fate.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“You're my hiding place. I go to you when I'm messed up.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Yeah, you got married, didn’t you? But,
you only did it because you thought we were over — and we’re not over. We’ll never be over. If you think that little piece of metal on your finger can shield off your feelings for me, you’re wrong. I wore one for five years and there wasn’t a day that went by where I wasn’t wishing it were you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“You couldn’t get rid of the past. You couldn’t ignore it, or bury it, or throw it over the balcony. You just had to learn to live beside it. It had to peacefully co exist with your present. If I could figure out how to do that, I could be okay.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Olivia, I once told you that I would love again, and that you would hurt forever. Do you remember?”
She nods. It’s a painful memory for both of us.
“It was a lie. I knew it was a lie, even as I said it. I’ve never loved anyone after you. I never will.”
I walk out.
Walk away.
No more fighting — not for her, or with her, or with myself.
I am so sad.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“You’re strong enough to protect your heart and mine, and your heart from mine. I’ll give you everything I have because from the day I met you, it’s belonged to you.”I kiss her then I roll on top of her. And that’s it. Our hearts are married. ”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“I make you vulnerable because you love me. That’s the price you pay for love, baby girl.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“There is no such thing as a clean slate. I know that now. You just embrace your dirty slate and build over it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“She burned hot enough to keep everyone away. It was a good trick, except I played with fire.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“I’ve never loved anyone after you. I never will.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“We make love every single day — no matter what. She is the only woman I’ve seen that gets more beautiful with age. She is the only woman I see.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Olivia. I've lost her three times. The first was to impatience. The second was to a lie so dense we couldn't work our way through it, and the third time - this time - I've lost her to Noah.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Did you have me checked out?”
“Background check in three different countries.” …
“Find anything you didn’t like?”
I shrug. “You married my first love, I already didn’t like you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“The day I met her under that tree, it was as if I breathed a spore of her into my lungs. We kept coming back to each other. The distance between our bodies grew wider over the years as we tried to live separately. But that spore took root and grew. And no matter the distance or circumstance, Olivia is something that grows inside of me.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
“Leah has red hair, but Olivia has a red personality. And as far as I’m concerned, red belongs to the love of my life.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Thief
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